Union Pacific GE C30-7 2422 and Norfolk & Western SD40-2 6073 at Kansas City, Missouri.

Both mountainous and desert-like, the landscape of Mongolia is always provides an interesting backdrop for train watching. To maneuver through the mountains, many switchbacks are used to overcome ... (more)

Empty headed for Power River Basin coal. A Roger Puta Photograph

We get a glimpse of Nashville & Eastern Railroad biggest power on their roster at the time is NERR 7082. Without taking a wild guess, you could definitely tell who was the original owner of this m... (more)

Sometimes these locomotives (GE C30-7, the half unit of 2TE116UD and Soviet 2M62MM) goes together from Ulaanbaatar to Zuunkharaa station. Because several freight trains stop without locomotives on... (more)

A westbound light engine movement destined to the ex-Interstate Railroad's Andover Yard splits the switch stands at Kent Junction. The switch stand on the left is for the west leg of the Kent Junc... (more)

Hot on the heels of Amtrak is this view of BN 5542 with another load of Wyoming black diamonds, just east of Lincoln, NE.

NS U52 crosses Mudlick Creek at Osaka on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Roda Branch. The crew has picked up 34 "yellow ball" loads at Roda and will gather an additional 32 loads at Prescot... (more)

Three six-axle units lead eastbound coal loads, NS 873, through the Tazewell area. Three additional six-axle units shove on the rear.

Lead by a rough looking Seaboard C30-7, 7091, an eastbound coal train crosses from main one to main two at Cotton Hill deep in the New River Gorge.

Empty hoppers climb out of downtown Omaha, as seen from the Bancroft St. bridge which was removed about 20 years ago. The old Martha St. Bridge is in the background.

CSXT 7069 appears to have seen its better days as it leads a unit coal train, running on NS trackage rights, at Tito. Note that the second engine in the consist, SF 8079, is painted in the "Kodach... (more)

A nice sunny afternoon for some TLC for Cargill's switching locomotive at the Viking grain elevator. It's a pretty hefty loco for switching duties but that is its role at its new home here in Viki... (more)